Satellite Dish In Lot Et Garonne

[sparky]

We will be taking our satellite dish and reciever to our house near Agen very soon and I aim to set it up without having to employ an engineer just as I have in England but does anyone know what the degree of inclination I need to use and what compass setting I need to aim for, hope to get your expert views.

 Regards Gary

[Deimos]

See http://www.brymar.co.uk/info/info.html.

I did mine myself (no experience) and including fitting dish to wall, running cable, etc. took a couple of hours. I did not use any specialist equipment and other than normal DIY tools for fitting dish/cable, I used only an old walking compass. Ended up with a better signal than I ever had in the UK (strength and quality).

Really was not that difficult.

(Usual care about any DIY stuff using tools, ladders, etc.)

[Lautrec]

I installed my own Dish without any trouble. Using a hand compass and pointing it roughly South East. I had already purchased a Satellite bleeper when I was in the UK and after conecting it to the aerial, I moved the dish until I got a loud continuous bleep. Lock the dish in place. Bingo!

Try contacting www.satelliteonline.co.uk. I paid about £25 two years ago!

Happy viewing!

Lautrec.

PS> You might need to obtain a bigger dish than the small ones used in the UK

[Clarkkent]

My property is just a few miles from Agen. I bought an Optex branded elliptical dish (80cm longest dimension) from Castorama and fixed it to the wall, using a meter to obtain the strongest signal. Picture quality is generally good except during storms when the signal may be unobtainable.

 

[HoneySuckleDreams]

I live very close to Tarbes in the Pyrenees and I've just fitted a satellite dish (80cm) to my chimney and got it working OK. I thought I would be too far south but it works fine. The best site I found was http://www.satsig.net/ssazelm.htm you type in the angle of where the satellite is (in my case Astra2 for Sky at 28.2 degrees), then the latitude and longitude of where you are (you can get this from www.multimap.com) and Voila! as they say down here.  It gives you the compass bearing and the angle of the dish PLUS the bit about turning the LNB thingy.  Took about 30 seconds.  I had to make a slight adjustment to the angle of tilt as my Chimney leans by 8 degrees.  The wife gets to watch Match of the Day ... just like blighty but without the grey skies.